The Way Satan Works
Posted by bigdaddymac on September 6, 2008
One of Satan’s most effective strategies is to pull you down through temptation, and then accuse you before the throne of God. READ Revelation 12:10 you would think that Satan, after leading a person to sin, would just leave him there to suffer the consequences: but this is not what happens. He wants to make the disobedient Christian doubly defeated. It a double whammy.
When you and I have disobeyed God, Satan moves in for the finishing stroke. Satan still uses this tactic with great effect. He will say to us, “You call yourself a Christian? Do you think a holy God will hear your prayer! Ha! After what you did?
See how he is, before we sin he whispers to us, Go ahead it’s O.K. you can get away with it…THEN HE SHOUTS You will never get away with this.
That is why it is so important that we learn to distinguish between Satan’s accusation and the Spirit’s conviction. A felling of guilt and shame is not necessarily a bad thing if it comes from the spirit of God. But if it drives us to despair and hopelessness, we have listened to the wrong voice.
Remember his End Game. “To steal, kill and destroy”! He wants you to experience regret and remorse—- But not repentance.
He wants to keep accusing you so that you focus your attention on yourself and your sins… and let your eyes slip away from the Lord.
Judas listened to the devil and went out and hanged himself in complete despair. Peter looked on the face of Jesus and wept bitterly, but later came back into the fellowship of Christ.
Remember this simple truth. Satan will always seek to drive you away from the Cross. God’s spirit will always draw you to it. Don’t let Hell and Satan keep you from coming to the cross and repenting of your sin, and experiencing the wonderful, cleansing forgiveness of God in your life.
Yes you can expect the devil to say you are not worthy of God’s forgiving grace, but that is the oldest tool in his tool box, and it is rusted and worn out, you think he would just stop using it , but he don’t ,why? Because it works and it has for thousands of years. As long as it keeps on doing the job he wants it to he will keep using it.
Sometime the Father of lies uses a little bit of truth to get to us. This was first evident in the garden with Eve. He came to her and took the words of God and twisted them around and said, “Has God not indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” GEN 3:3 and 3:4 then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” He even tried the same thing with Jesus himself in the wilderness, quoting a little bit of scripture out of context. And what happened? His strategy hit a brick wall. This is why it is important for us to read Gods word every day, seeking Gods face, walking in the fullness of his holy spirit. We need the Holy Spirit’s help to identify and filter out Satan’s lies from God’s truth.
Remember Jesus said to Peter, “Satin has been asking for you…but I have prayed for you.” Our defense against the accusations of the devil is the Son Of God, who intercedes and prays for us before the father. 1st John 2:1 says my little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if any one sins, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
On the Cross that day some 2000 years ago Christ died for you and me. Through his death, Jesus destroyed “him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.” Hebrews 2:14
So we fight and engage in spiritual warfare, but we are not fighting to obtain victory. We are resting in the victory Jesus Christ has already obtained. We do not fight for victory (“Oh Lord, give me victory in this or that.) We fight from victory (Lord I thank you that you wont give me more than I can handle.)
Saying all of this I must say this if you have not asked Jesus Christ into your heart, asked him to be the Lord and Master of your life, you are a sitting duck defenseless, waiting for the devil to attack your soul and drag you down. You can stop it all by asking Jesus to come into your life and take away your sins. Before to late
